On 9 February 2012 23:13, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote:
I've seen a couple of Samsung ML printers recently that have just given up
(whirring away with the red light on, no obvious way of fixing them). On
the other hand my wife's one has been fine for a couple of years.
And
Hi all,
I've recently had to change my Linux PC into a Windows PC (well dual boot)
:(. However I cannot make my on board sound card work with Windows XP
(spent 2 hrs installing, un-installing, trying different driver versions
etc.). An nice win for Linux as it worked perfectly out of the box with
All sorted now thanks to Ian :)
On 15 Nov 2011 15:58, Ian Park i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 15/11/11 14:37, Stephen Rowles wrote:
Hi all,
I've recently had to change my Linux PC into...
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On 03/04/2011 03:59 PM, Jacqui Caren-home wrote:
On 04/03/2011 10:03, Mike Austin wrote:
In the mornings I am able to watch the BBC News and UK TV on my
mobile, from
a Slingbox in my UK home. I can also use the SKY1 app to view Sky TV
schedules and send a signal to my Sky receiver to record
On 19/01/2011 11:27, Victor Churchill wrote:
victor@ss07:~$ telnet phoenix 25
Trying 192.168.11.199...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
I haven't done anything explicit to do with firewalling on the phoenix
server.
I can see other services the server is running such
On 08/10/2010 07:51 PM, Andy Random wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a good place to start to learn about developing apps
for Android.
I have more years than I'm willing to admit to of software development
(Assembler/C/Perl) experience but have never done anything with Java
and have fairly
On 06/14/2010 07:40 PM, Stephen Rowles wrote:
does anyone know if it's possible to specify 2
outputs so I can have spdif and HDMI output at the same time? I've tried
googling but I've not found anything other than one horribly complicated
example of mixing analog audio which didn't seem
On 14/06/2010 11:03, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a STB that I can install Linux onto.
I need:
1) Net boot.
2) Wake on USB (for the remote control. I want the STB to be in a
cupboard, with just the remote control eye outside, so a USB attached
remote sensor.)
3) HDMI
Hi All,
Any ALSA experts out there?
I've got my home media centre set up, I use mplayer which outputs using
the following alsa device:
-ao alsa:device=hw=0.3
This outputs digital sound data over my HDMI connection to the TV.
However I would like to also output the data over the SPDIF optical
I've got 2.67, which is a bit better than 2.42. I'd also like to get
hold of 2.72 if anyone has it. If not I'd be happy to supply 2.67
Simon Reap wrote:
The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has
retired his program which is a shame.
The latest one I have is 2.42,
On 15/04/2010 13:29, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
I think the payback period for PVs in the UK is something like 30
years due to the lack of sunlight in the UK.
I think, due to wear and tear, the PV would have to be replaced before
30 years, so using PVs in the UK does not give you any TCO
On 03/16/2010 04:27 PM, Ian Park wrote:
I'm looking around for a phone to replace my current model, a Sony
Ericsson v630i. I'd like one with a keyboard a la Blackberry; it's
also important for me that I can use it as a modem for my laptop
netbook (both of which run Ubuntu). There's no
On 17/03/2010 12:42, Andy Random wrote:
Looking at the current phone market my next phone will probably be
Android, though at the moment I'm on the fence about when I'll upgrade.
So a quick question about gmail integration with Android... How well does
it deal with multiple gmail accounts?
On 03/11/2010 01:51 PM, Andy Random wrote:
Budget is no more than 400 UKP (less would be good:) for a fully working
system, though I have a serviceable pair of stereo speaks so if the
solution will connect to standard hifi speakers that price doesn't have to
include speakers.
Any
On 02/17/2010 09:49 AM, Steve wrote:
Hi List,
Could anyone point me in the direct of some software that would allow me
to import a digital photo (JPEG), draw some lines on the image and then
measure the angles between them?
I've set the subject as basic CAD software as that was my first
On 02/17/2010 11:19 AM, Lisi wrote:
The IPs of the two active computers are 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3. The
router is 192.168.0.1.
I then tried the following (from 192.168.0.2):
Tux:/home/lisi# netstat -atn
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local
On 02/16/2010 12:05 PM, john lewis wrote:
I know want to run unison on landing to synchronise the geneweb
directory on landing with a geneweb directory on benden and for this I
need to be able to setup ssh on landing to allow ssh benden
But I get an error message
ssh: connect to host benden
Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:34:16 +, step...@rowles.org.uk said:
vendor resets available: 4
user controlled changes resets available: 4
Be aware of what this means: you can only change the region five times in
total, then that's it, it will stay in the last
Hi all,
I have a new media centre PC. A nice little ASRock ION-330.
I tried to play my first region locked DVD last night, and all I got was
a random CSS error. After much searching I found the answer on google,
so I thought I would share with everyone just in case you have the same
issues!
On 02/01/2010 02:51 AM, LinuxLearner wrote:
consent to give Facebook my email). This infuriates me, no end: it's
You misunderstand, possibly;
Somebody, somewhere (doesn't matter who, or how they got the address),
has your email addy stored at (say) GMail. That person decides to
All,
I've finally got round clearing out my old machine. I'm not sure what
state this stuff is in it is in because the power supply blew up,
nothing is visibly damaged. I thought I would offer in case anyone is
interested rather than just taking it straight down the tip.
I need to get rid of
Stephen Rowles wrote:
Micro-ATX case, removable double 3.5 hdd tray. 2 fixed 3.5 inch bays.
two 5 1/4 inch drive bays. 4 expansion slots. Spare for 120mm fan on
rear. No PSU.
Asus A8N-SLI with AMD 64-3200XP (think, and I don't want to take the
heat sink off to check). With IO Shield
All now reserved. I will post back if any becomes available.
Stephen Rowles wrote:
All,
I've finally got round clearing out my old machine. I'm not sure what
state this stuff is in it is in because the power supply blew up,
nothing is visibly damaged. I thought I would offer in case
On 01/18/2010 08:27 AM, Philip Stubbs wrote:
2010/1/17 Leoli...@fractal.me.uk:
Is anyone out there using a digital TV card on Ubuntu 9.10 and also dual
booting with windows? If so do you find that after switching back from
Windows to Ubuntu the TV card doesn't work, and you have to reboot
Adam John Trickett wrote:
Hi,
I may have convinced a family member of the merits of a small box home
computer system. I'm no particular axe to grind regarding Shuttle boxes but
the requirement is a small, quiet box for a home office setting. Its be
running
a full weight Linux distro and
On 11/27/2009 09:08 AM, Antony wrote:
Stephen Rowles wrote:
I'm running Fedora 11 and trying to allow remote access to my machine
via Krfb - I need to get this working so I can work from home tomorrow!
If I'd know it was going to be difficult I would have started earlier
:(. I rather
Hi all,
I'm running Fedora 11 and trying to allow remote access to my machine
via Krfb - I need to get this working so I can work from home tomorrow!
If I'd know it was going to be difficult I would have started earlier
:(. I rather foolishly assumed that because Krfb came pre-installed it
On 10/29/2009 07:49 PM, Dee Earley wrote:
On 29/10/2009 12:57, Stephen Davies wrote:
Has an interesting article asking the question
Should the UK have its own Linux Distro.
Why?
Apart from the fact that being something to do with IT our government
would screw it up, I think
From the telegraph:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/14057/geocities-closes-today/
XKCD have an incredible re-work as a tribute:
http://www.xkcd.com/
:)
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On 10/06/2009 12:56 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
2009/10/6 Dr A. J. Trickettadam.trick...@iredale.net:
We should should have table on our Wiki with the equivalents,
written by people who use system X rather than by people who don't
use X.
On 10/05/2009 04:30 PM, john lewis wrote:
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:11:09 +0100
Philip Stubbsphi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote:
2009/10/5 Stephen Daviesstephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk:
.deb Hell ??? wtf?
We all know that it is only rpm's that give you hell!
(Now where's the 'only
I'm interested in buying an ASRock ION-330 to replace my current media
centre and take advantage of HDMI output to my LCD and to have something
small and quiet rather than a tower case in the lounge ;)
EclipseComputers have it for a reasonable price.
However according to companies house they
On 09/04/2009 02:44 PM, Bob Dunlop wrote:
Not a Shiva but should be interesting to some people looking for a small
workhorse in the nslug vein.
Mini2440 or FriendlyARM. $110 for a 405MHz ARM9 processor, 64M RAM, 128M
Flash, Ethernet, USB host, USB slave, SD card slot, 3 serial ports, I2C,
On 08/13/2009 01:16 PM, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
As gparted seems not to want to allow me to shrink/move anything, do I
have any option but to back everything up and start again?
Chris.
gparted won't let you adjust or move any partition that is currently
mounted. Seeing as you want to
Stephen Davies wrote:
I'm wondering how other LUG Members would tackle the release of software
with known bugs and would it stop you from developing software in the
future if you had the spectre of being sued for bugss in your software.
Remember that the Microsoft EULA makes them NOT Liable
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/8/6 pavithran pavithra...@gmail.com:
Uncertainty : yeah I am afraid if my tv tuner or graphic card gets
detected in linux
There is this thing called Google. It has a list of supported devices.
When it comes to TV tuners that still assumes:
1) You can
Keith Edmunds wrote:
The MythTV mailing list and website are very helpful in this respect.
I don't run myth so didn't think of posting there, the linux-dvb mailing
list wasn't very helpful.
For me I own:
On 08/05/2009 11:58 AM, Adam Sweet wrote:
Brief summaries:
John Wesley, Hardware + Mythbuntu: £425
processor: Via C7
memory: 1 Gb
Hard Drive: 1.5 Tb
Optical drive: None
Graphics: VIA UniChromeTM Pro II 3D/2D AGP
*snip*
Without some research
On 08/04/2009 03:35 PM, Stephen Rowles wrote:
ASRock Ion-330 (No OS) £249.99 (svp.co.uk)
Processor: Intel Atom (330 dual core)
Memory: 2 Gb (800 mhz)
Hard Drive: 320 Gb (2.5inch)
Optical drive: DVD re-writer (slimline / laptop)
Graphics
On 08/04/2009 03:52 PM, David Webb wrote:
Stephen Rowles wrote:
You've missed my suggestions
My mistake - sorry about that.
No worries.
What is the position re Linux drivers? Are
they the same NVidia ones as the Acer Aspire?
David
The drivers are exactly the same
On 08/03/2009 09:41 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Pavithran,
2009/8/2 pavithranpavithra...@gmail.com:
Yes I am suggesting someone to use a proprietary software in a linux
list but I am afraid that there is no *viable* FOSS alternative :(
Untrue. MythTV, Boxee and XBMC are all (for the most
On 08/03/2009 10:31 AM, John Wesley wrote:
2009/8/2 Stuart Matheson stuart.j.mathe...@gmail.com
mailto:stuart.j.mathe...@gmail.com
Hi Everyone,
I did a quick search of the HantsLUG list and couldn't find
anything appropriate so please let me know if I've missed something.
My
On 08/03/2009 10:47 AM, Stephen Rowles wrote:
Or if you don't want to build it yourself:
http://www.svp.co.uk/systems-pcs/value/pc-asrock-ion-330-pc-system-no-os-black_mte-01011.html
Dual core ion system, tiny case, from all reports it is silent in
operation. Uses NVIDIA's ION platform so
On 08/03/2009 12:30 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
I am puzzled by one of the responses to this thread.
If you have to build some kernel modules and it is a real PITA when the
kernel is upgraded to get it all working again
then as this is a Media Centre and therefore a pretty statically
defined
On 08/03/2009 01:23 PM, Vic wrote:
We have DKMS in Ubuntu
...and everywhere else as well.
DKMS isn't quite as clean as it might be - but it does give the lie to all
those waily you've got to recompile the kernel just to use Linux FUDs...
Vic.
Ok, I don't fully understand DKMS,
On 07/31/2009 10:57 AM, Lisi wrote:
On Friday 31 July 2009 03:15:12 pavithran wrote:
Aren't we as linux users
on Cutting edge ?
No
Lisi
I'd agree with that, it is sometimes referred to as the Bleeding Edge
for a reason!
I like to live by the if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Hi all,
I'm running Fedora 10, and I installed the KDE packages after installing
from a live CD which ran gnome. The upshot of this is that I have 2 of
almost everything all trying to be helpful at once, and in the case of
power / suspend monitors it is really unhelpful!
In particular I seem
Hugo Mills wrote:
[snip]
You can see all sorts of interesting things here which can easily be
used to warn on pending failure of a drive.
It's not actually a very good guide to failure. The figures I've
seen quoted from NetApp are that SMART data will only give you warning
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
None of the above smart parameters give any indication from the
accelerometers.
So, one has no way of telling if shock was a contributing factor to
the HD failure.
It would be nice to see smart stats saying, we got this much shock
before we managed to park the
Victor Churchill wrote:
Desktop machine: Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.11. Firefox regularly grows
to 1GB in virtual memory size and close to 1GB physical memory at
which point my (1GB) system starts thrashing and I usually need to
kill it and restart. FF version from Synaptic is
Right...
Well it wasn't the power supply. Nice shiney new PSU with more power than
the old one, and it is still behaving the same.
Just to update, must have been a memory / cpu / motherboard issue of some
description. I decided the simplest plan was to replace those parts (went
Intel rather
I have got a root tab working thanks to Stephen but still can't work out
the 'spell' to get a root mc tab based on the command:
/bin/bash -c su -
that he suggested. I really struggle with simple things like this as I
know practically zilch about programming of any sort, I'd probably even
I have got a root tab working thanks to Stephen but still can't work out
the 'spell' to get a root mc tab based on the command:
/bin/bash -c su -
that he suggested. I really struggle with simple things like this as I
know practically zilch about programming of any sort, I'd probably even
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:06:55 +0100 (BST)
Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk wrote:
right.. having installed midnight commander (never used it before)
the following command should work:
/bin/bash -c su - -c mc
ah! it was the need for a second -c that had escaped me
mc is a very
Until a short time ago Konsole had options in the File menu for a Root
tab and a Root MC tab in addition to New tab and New Window. A
recent update removed the two 'Root' options, I suspect a bit of
ubuntization at work.
I have got used to using Konsole and would like to have those
two
Right...
Well it wasn't the power supply. Nice shiney new PSU with more power than
the old one, and it is still behaving the same.
Booting gets further depending on how many peripherals are connected,
without anything other than display and keyboard it will boot, but even
just connecting the
Hi all,
Slightly OT, except for the fact that the machine is running Fedora 10.
My machine powers on and boots into grub just fine, however as soon as I
select the kernel to boot the machine continues to a blinking cursor
before the whole machine simple shuts down.
I'm wondering if it might be
2009/6/30 Steve Kemp st...@steve.org.uk:
On Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 17:34:48 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
I'm wondering if it might be a faulty PSU?
I think its a tie between PSU and overheating.
It behaves the same regardless of which kernel I select so I don't
think
it is related to any
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:34 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
Hi all,
Slightly OT, except for the fact that the machine is running Fedora 10.
My machine powers on and boots into grub just fine, however as soon as I
select the kernel to boot the machine continues to a blinking cursor
before
Hugo Mills wrote:
Yet one more reason to avoid ternary operators... (If you haven't
guessed yet, I'm not a fan of the whole concept. I've rarely met a use
of the ternary operator, in any language, that made code easier to
read.)
Hugo.
I use the following fairly regularly when
I'm beginning to get pain in my shoulder through over use of the mouse.
I have seen other alternatives like a mouse pen or a track ball mouse
and wonder if anyone has experience of these things and recommend their
use.
It would have to work under Fedora 10 or Ubuntu of course :-)
I
Roger Munford wrote:
I haven't a problem at the moment but it could happen anytime and
prevention is always better.
Good point Roger, but like backups prevention is often something that
people look back on an wish they had done after the event!
I'd also echo this. My physiotherapist said
The posts are no more than 1-2 per month and are formatted in such a way
that people can ether hit delete or open as soon as they see it.
Alternatively perhaps you can just create a filter just as easily?
On some of the other groups I subscribe to I do make non-Job posts...and
in fact am
Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this
commercial product?
http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/
( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server )
I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a remote copy of the
Firefox web browser
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:25:35 +0100 (BST), step...@rowles.org.uk said:
I
cannot afford to have any downtime at the moment or my project manager
will shoot me! tbh he'd probably shoot me if he knew I was even looking
at this
Let's hope he's not a closet HantsLug reader. There's no reason why
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:22:22 +0100 (BST), step...@rowles.org.uk said:
Just trying to get across the point that I cannot
afford any downtime right now
My point entirely.
Not wanting to flog a dead horse here... but I still don't get your point.
All you have said is:
- what do you gain if
I had to go through various Windows installation repairs after that,
but I did end up with a virtual Windows machine that was, essentially, a
clone of my real Windows installed - and I never booted that workstation
into Windows again.
Which is exactly what I'm trying to achieve.. thank
Actually, it's good advice.
To add to it I would say that if you're neck's on the block and this is
effectively a production machine, then only something that is more
urgent than your current project should take precedence over it. If it's
not more important then I'd stall it until after the
A friend of mine on Facebook linked to this - very funny (and scarily
accurate) :)
http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/04/tools-explained-by-do-it-yourselfer.html
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Hi,
I am looking for a co-location provider and have come acrosthese two
names,
both on the same estate location in Fareham. DOes anyone know whether
there
is a relationship between them, or is it just coincidence?
Never heard of either of them before.
ServerHouse would appear to be a
Hi all
I'd probably settle for a system that transfers from PVR to DVD by copying
a file rather than making a DVD recording of a PVR broadcast so to speak
but is there a simpler way? I don't have a nice enough looking case so
I've not tried a media centre PC, MythUbuntu or some such
Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
I've done a bit of googling but (apart from the obvious shape of the
case) what's so special about a shuttle PC?
I'm looking to put together a new machine with quite a bit of grunt
(6Gb RAM+ and as fast a CPU as I can afford). The only other real
I have a tv set which is connected to a satellite dish and tuner and is
capable of receiving only German tv. How does that fit into all this?
Chris.
I *think* that this still requires a license. In the UK you need a license
to watch live TV, regardless of the source. I guess this would be
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:31:39 +
Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I am one of the hold-outs. Our TV died over a year ago and we decided
not to renew the licence. TV licencing send automated nastygrams
threating imminent court action but some nice web sites break these
letters
Hello folks
I know this was discussed last year, but a non-TV-owning client has just
asked me whether he needs a BBC licence to use iPlayer, and I was
surprised to find this page at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/channels/television/iplayer.shtml which
implies that he does. It says The TV
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 13:45:52 Stephen Rowles wrote:
As I posted before, but I will post again just to add some balance. My
previous experience is that if you open the and read the letters,
contact
the TV licensing people and explain that you either
a) don't have a TV or
b) have a TV
Yes, welcome to 2002!
I've used live bookmarks in firefox before and quite frankly wondered what
the point was I kept having to click on the bookmark to see what had
changed, it didn't seem to achieve anything useful.
However I have just discovered and installed Liferea which is brilliant
and I
I know that many are amazed at how slack some peoples backups are, and
I know that my current situation is among them. However, in my
defence, my computer is more a toy than a business tool. My life would
not grind to a halt should all my computers go up in a puff of smoke.
That said, I have
Mark,
The problems with 1080i 1080p that the current eeeBox (B202) has are
well known.
If you google for B204 or B206 you will see the announcements for the
new models. These should have enough grunt to deal with 1080p (well I
hope so...)
Stephen D
Problem is it is an ATI card, and at
You can get (and pretty cheaply...) DVI to HDMI cables.
This solves the problem of searching for reasonably priced graphics
cards with a HDMI conector.
I use a 5m one to connect my Macbook to the Camera Clubs 1080p projector.
That said, the next generation of eeeBox (B204/B206) is supposedly
All,
I would like to use HDMI output to get my Linux media centre working on an
LCD TV. (I don't have the TV yet though!). What I want to do is to do away
with my expensive and small media centre PC and have a high powered PC
which can sit in the understairs cupboard, using nice big low noise
On Mon, January 26, 2009 15:48, Brian Chivers wrote:
Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ?
Yep, I do it all the time, however...
What I'd like to be able to do is stream TV
shows that I've recorded in avi / xvid format to Windows workstations
connected to projectors so
Hugo Mills wrote:
All -
Is anyone aware of a tool that will read the contents of an DVD and
write out, say, a dvdauthor XML configuration that represents that
DVD? I don't want something which can copy DVDs verbatim -- I want
something that will allow me to edit the DVD between
I've had good experience with Steve Gibson's Spinrite. There's a ton of
testimonials here
http://www.grc.com/sr/testimonials.htm
This guy is one of the best, I would trust everything he does.
Spinrite is worth paying for simply for the maintenance effect, I buy very
little proprietary
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:28:51PM +, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
From time to time, I try to enliven a dull evening by making yet another
attempt to get my Twinhan Alpha 7045A USB TV tuner to work on one of my
Debian ThinkPads. To the best of my ability, I've followed every piece
of
Jumping sideways slightly, are the signal levels reported by femon
consistent from DVB-T tuner to tuner? And what sort of levels are
needed?
Short answer.. no
Long answer.. see linux-dvb mailing list ;)
I believe there is some attempt being made to produce a unified output
scale for these
32 ideally. It's just that time of year I guess. The shops I've
looked
at that allow you to check stock levels prior to buying (argos, comet etc)
have plenty of 32 TVs without PC inputs, but I had to go over 400 quid
before I could find one both in stock and having PC input. There were
The Holy ettlz wrote:
Hello,
I've run into a number of kernel recursive faults on my notebook with
F10 that I never experienced with F8 or F9. I suspect that this is
something to do with the graphics code (and from what I understand
there's still a lot of roadworks going on there) since on
John Cooper wrote:
Did you actually upgrade from Fedora 8 or do a new install? If you
upgraded I would start again with an initial (new) install and see if
that solves the problem. I have not had any kernel problems.
John.
I initially upgraded, but I have since wiped and installed
Hi all,
Is anyone else having serious stability issues with Fedora 10? I have
used Linux for over 10 years now and prior to using Fedora 10 I've seen
maybe 2 kernel oops or complete crashes of the kernel.
Since upgrading to Fedora 10 I've had 5 or 6 oops and about 4 complete
system hangs,
I'm looking for a new broadband provider, having intended to escape
Tiscali ever since realising during a support call that I knew more
about
networking than the person at the other end.
I have talktalk, yes their service is crap and you are outsourced to a
call centre in different locations
Does anyone else have this problem?
I have my new shiney Fedora 10 install, one of the things that attracted
me was the new Pulse glitch free audio, audio playback has never been
great in Linux, especially with multiple sources, I hate the fact that 50%
of the time I end up having to close an app
Check through the Bugzilla, there are loads on it skipping. Chances are
your bug is already there; add your hardware data to it.
Yup, this is pretty much mine situation perfectly:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470568
I'll append my hardware details when I get home and have
When moving the mouse over icons in windows (particularly Dolphin) the
machine becomes very busy (even with the Dolphin preview pane shut and all
the window effects turned off.) The Xmms spectrum analyser freezes and if
I pass over more than about 2 icons the pulseaudio output stops then
Hi all,
I've just upgraded my Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 using the upgrade option from
the DVD image.
Now I imagine that Fedora 8 to 10 is not really the supported or intended
upgrade path, but I was left with a system that would boot but I couldn't
log in to X or even run yum or rpm to try and sort
Out of interest, does anyone know where the TV license issue stands on
browsing the BBC's website and using the iPlayer?
Presumably iPlayer is recorded TV programs and therefore a license is
required?
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/charge
Interesting wording though:
Stephen Rowles wrote:
They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV.
My
friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come
round.
I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told
them
he didn't have a TV. The investigator
I've doubled checked and according to the TV license web site:
You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record
television programmes as they're being shown on TV.
And from an article on the BBC news:
The law says that anyone who uses a TV, or any other device, to receive
TV
from lspci...
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)
is this different to yours?
works like a charm with NetworkManager
I've got a 3945 card too, not sure which one as I'm at work and the laptop
is at home ;), and that works great
Things still to test before upgrading:
* 3D graphics
* TV output
* Audio playback (mp3)
* Movie (SD HD) playback both on the LCD and via TV out.
* Bluetooth
* Infrared
* DVD-Writing
I've now also tested:
* 3D graphics, glxgears gives smooth output and slightly higher framerate
than
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